Frank Mattern

Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company Germany

Frank Mattern (49) has led McKinsey & Company's German office since January 2007. He studied business administration at Westphalia's Wilhelms University in Münster, Germany, and at the London School of Economics. He went on to earn his MBA from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania). In 1990, he began his consulting career with McKinsey. Only five years later, he was elected a partner. His election to Director followed four years later. Right from the beginning, Frank Mattern focused his efforts on the financial sector. From 1997 to 2001, he led McKinsey's German Financial Services Group. Even now as a senior leader, his ties to this industry remain very strong. His numerous projects for large German and European financial institutions led him to his second focus: business technologies. Increasingly complex challenges in a context where business meets IT prompted Frank Mattern to found the Business Technology Office (BTO) together with colleagues in 1997. He remained the BTO's global leader up to 2006. Frank Mattern serves on the 31-member Shareholders' Council, McKinsey's highest global decision making committee. His clients include in particular European banks, stock exchanges, and IT companies. Born in Krefeld, Frank Mattern has authored several books on business and finance topics. He is married and has three children.


 
Dr. Lutz R. Raettig

Chairman of the Supervisory Board , Morgan Stanley Bank AG, Frankfurt

Dr. Lutz R. Raettig joined Morgan Stanley as Managing Director and Chairman of the Management Board of Morgan Stanley Bank AG, Frankfurt, in 1995. He also occupied the position of Country-Head for Germany and Austria and since 2002 Vice Chairman Morgan Stanley Europe. He resigned as Chairman of the Management Board and Country Head effective January 1, 2005 and transitioned from the Management Board to the Supervisory Board of MSBAG in February 2005. He assumed the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He also is a Director of Morgan Morgan Stanley International Bank, London.

Before joining Morgan Stanley, Lutz Raettig worked for Commerzbank AG for eight years. During this time he was Head of Investment Banking, Head of Global Corporate Banking - both in Frankfurt - and Co-Head North America in New York. Prior to this he was with Westdeutsche Landesbank (WestLB) for 18 years. He was mostly active in the areas of Investment Banking, Capital Markets and Corporate Banking and was located in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, London (Orion Banking Group) and New York. Lutz Raettig was and is extensively involved in a large number of projects and transactions involving governments, industrial companies as well as the financial services industry.

Additionally, he is Chairman of the Stock Exchange Council of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Member of the Supervisory Board of Clearstream International, Member of the Management Board of Bankenverband, Berlin, Member of the Board of Directors American Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Advisory Board Deutsche Allgemeine Kreditversicherung, Coface, etc.

Dr. Lutz R. Raettig studied business administration in Hamburg and finished with a PhD in 1969. He is married to Katherine Fürstenberg- Raettig and has one son.


 
Michael Kruklinski

Chief Strategy Officer North America, Vice President Corporate Development & Strategy, Siemens Corporation

Background
  • Siemens Head office advanced training program
  • Siemens trainee program
Professional experience at Siemens
  • 2008 – Chief Strategy Officer, Head of Corporate Development - Strategic Planning / NYC Metro Executive/ Lead Executive for Bank Of America and AT&T
  • 2005-2007 – Senior Director Market Intelligence & Competitor Analysis
  • 1995-1996 – Senior Consultant, Business Process Consulting
  • 1994-1995 – Benchmarking and Business Process Reengineering / Director of Strategic Planning & Controls for the large /medium drives division
  • 1992-1994 – MIS and Organizational Development
  • 1989-1990 – Business Unit Administration and Controlling for I-centers
  • 1987 – Sales and Marketing for Standard Product Group

Professional experience outside Siemens
  • 2000-2004 – A.T. Kearney, Inc. – Sr. Principal / Financial Institutions Group & Communications / High Tech Industry
  • 1996-2000 – First American Corporation – Sr. VP and Director of Finance & Director of Business Process Innovations
Additional Information
  • Business Board Member American Council on Germany
  • Board Member NY/NJ/CT Regional Planning Association (RPA)
  • Board Member Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
  • Board Member Siemens Caring Hands Foundation
  • Frequent Speaker @ Strategic and M&A Conferences
  • Significant Project: Creation Siemens Industry Sector, SmartGrid BU creation, eCar development, U.S. Agenda, Set-Up Infrastructure Cities Sector

Personal Information
  • Married w/ two children, residing in Northern NJ

 
Professor Bruce C. N. Greenwald

Director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing

Professor Bruce C. N. Greenwald holds the Robert Heilbrunn Professorship of Finance and Asset Management at Columbia Business School and is the academic Director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing. Described by the New York Times as "a guru to Wall Street's gurus," Professor Greenwald is an authority on value investing with additional expertise in productivity and the economics of information.

Professor Greenwald has been recognized for his outstanding teaching abilities. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award which honors the best of Columbia's teachers for maintaining the University's longstanding reputation for educational excellence. His classes are consistently oversubscribed, with more than 650 students taking his courses every year in subjects such as Value Investing, Economics of Strategic Behavior, Globalization of Markets, and Strategic Management of Media. He is, among others, the author of the books Value Investing: from Graham to Buffett and Beyond and Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy.